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Excerpt: Meet Me at the Met
6+ hour, 42+ min ago (224+ words) I had three clear goals at the start of 2015: learn how to box, learn how to swim, and fall in love. The last one was the only one I managed. This is the beginning of the story of how. On…...
FEMINIST GIANT Presents: The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
2+ week, 6+ hour ago (261+ words) FEMINIST GIANT Presents: The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls Join award-winning feminist author and activist Mona Eltahawy for a four-part course on turning her groundbreaking feminist manifesto The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls into Feminism in…...
Essay: I’ve been a New Yorker for 23 years. Today Zohran Mamdani’s swearing-in makes this city a real home
2+ week, 1+ day ago (218+ words) Published in the January 1, 2026 edition of The Guardian I chose the vendor with the most protein on offer because I lift and squat more than my bodyweight and must meet a daily goal. "Our kebab is one of Zohran's favourites,…...
On Ugly Feminists - by Mona Eltahawy - FEMINIST GIANT
4+ week, 1+ day ago (582+ words) First published July 17, 2024 This is part of a running series. Read the previous Wonder Chronicle:: On Sisters. I am not a bad feminist. I am not a good feminist. I am an ugly feminist. And I am not fishing for…...
Signed Copies Books of Bloody Hell!, Headscarves and Hymens, and 7 Necessary Sins
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (146+ words) Clockwise from top left: Bloody Hell!, Headscarves and Hymens (UK edition), The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls (Ireland and UK edition), The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls (U.S. edition). All paperback. If you live in the U.S. and…...
Last Day of 35% Sale!
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (94+ words) Feminist author, disruptor of patriarchy. Books: The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls, Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution, Bloody Hell! Adventures in Menopause from Around the World, editor (March 2025) Today is the last…...
35% Sale! - by Mona Eltahawy - FEMINIST GIANT
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (91+ words) Feminist author, disruptor of patriarchy. Books: The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls, Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution, Bloody Hell! Adventures in Menopause from Around the World, editor (March 2025) For the next week,…...
Essay: The president is groped in broad daylight, and Mexican women cry: MeToo, MeToo, MeToo
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (184+ words) Originally published in The Guardian, November 8, 2025 Signed Copies of Bloody Hell! Signed Copies 7 Necessary Sins "I tell my students you have to embrace the anger!" Cardona told me. I told her I know that man who groped me in a…...
Essay: "Does Brittany Look Oppressed to You?"
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (795+ words) First published May 16, 2025 "Does Brittany look oppressed to you?" That question could be the tagline of white Christian nationalists" decades-long, meticulous and diligent takeover of the United States'a takeover facilitated and often fronted by white women. Because right on cue,…...
Essay: What Does a Rapist Look Like?
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (1381+ words) First published Oct. 29, 2025 What does a rapist look like? One of the most harrowing rape scenes I've seen in a television show lasted just a few minutes. The rape of Dr. Melfi in The Sopranos was in the stairwell of…...